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Poppy Field - Witherley, Leicestershire

  On BBC East Midlands Today a Weather Watcher photo from a viewer featured a spectacular bright red Poppy field noting its location as Witherley a small village in Leicestershire and only 20 mins drive from home one evening we set off to find and capture the stunning sight. As we arrived on the edge of the village the low hum of drones and sight of multiple parked cars told us we where close, sure enough through glimpses in the hedge we saw flashes of red colour, parking in an open gateway we where greeted by a spectacular carpet of bright red poppies stretching as far as our eyes could see. In the distance the village church spire could just be seen over the hedges and the birds where singing in the hedgerows and trees around us. Soon as the evening sun began to cast long shadows and back lit the flowers, bees moved buzzing between them and various smaller insects completed the scene. Overhead a plane makes a trail through a near cloudless sky as the warm graduations of sunset ...

East Midlands Cyclo-Cross Regional Championship

I visited Misterton Hall nr Lutterworth for the East Midlands Cyclo-Cross Regional Championship. In my film we see the Cyclo-Cross riders preparing their bikes for the race before heading to the start line and racing through the woodland filled grounds of Misterton Hall. The riders cover various terrain and twist and turn through the trees over bridges and beside a lake before crossing the finish line stopping occasionally at the pits to swap bikes.